NĀDA Radio - The Primordial Sound of the Cosmos (EN)
Vibration as Beginning
NĀDA Radio is an artistic project that transforms real-time cosmic data into continuous ambient music. But it's more than a technological experiment – it's an attempt to touch something fundamental.
In Sanskrit, “nāda” means the primordial sound, the cosmic vibration from which the universe was born. Before there was light, there was tremor. Before there was matter, there was frequency. Contemporary physics confirms what tantra has proclaimed for millennia – everything is vibration, from quantum strings to gravitational waves rippling through spacetime.
From Solar Flare to Gravitational Wave
The project initially aimed to create a simple internet radio generating its own content, but naturally evolved into something deeper. The key breakthrough was introducing external cosmic data – solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and geomagnetic storms, retrieved from NASA every 5 minutes (currently every 6 hours), then adding registers of detected gravitational waves from GWOSC (Gravitational Wave Open Science Center) from LIGO, VIRGO, and KAGRA detectors.
Why cosmic data specifically? Because they're constantly changing while maintaining mathematical logic. The Sun doesn't lie. There's no human ego in it, no manipulation. It is pure energy, transformation, an eternal cycle of creation and destruction.
But the Sun is only the beginning. Gravitational waves – those barely detectable ripples in spacetime caused by collisions of black holes billions of light-years away – are even more fundamental. They are literally vibrations of the fabric of the universe itself. When two massive objects spiral toward each other in a cosmic dance, they send waves that reach us as echoes of the deepest transformation.
It's a perfect metaphor for tantra – energy that arises from the union of opposites, from joining, from fusion. Gravitational waves are traces of cosmic intimacy.
Tantra and Creative Energy
In the tantric tradition, nāda-brahman is absolute reality manifesting as sound vibration. Everything that exists is condensed sound. And sound is condensed energy. And energy in its most primordial form is the same force that pushes galaxies into existence and pulses in the human body as sexual, creative, life-giving energy.
This is the “uncomfortable” truth that the West desperately tries to separate – that creative energy and sexual energy are one. That the desire to create music, art, life comes from the same source as the desire for procreation. Tantra never made this artificial distinction. Shakti – cosmic creative energy – manifests in all forms of creation, from the birth of stars to the birth of a human child, from a supernova explosion to a musical composition.
Contemporary society wants us to believe that “spiritual” and “carnal” are separate categories. That true art should be “pure”, separated from this uncomfortable, animal, wet reality of the body. But every true artist knows that the best creativity comes from the same place as ecstasy – from full engagement of life energy, without censorship, without shame, without division into “high” and “low”.
NĀDA Radio is a tantric project in this sense – it allows energy to flow without blockages. Cosmic data as stimulus, algorithm as guide, but at the centre – pure, uncensored creation. A perpetual motion machine of generative music that never repeats, always new, always in the process of becoming.
Raspberry Pi as Technological Asana
Why Raspberry Pi 1B – the oldest, weakest model? One could use a powerful server, a modern computer with gigabytes of RAM. But that's the whole point.
In tantra, limitation is not an obstacle – it's a tool of transformation. Tantric practitioners often deliberately introduce constraints (asanas, fasts, breath regulation) to redirect energy, to mobilize deeper resources. When you can't rely on direct force, you must become smarter, more efficient, more creative.
Raspberry Pi 1B with its 512MB RAM and single-core processor forces elegance. There's no room for bullshit, for waste, for excess. Every line of code must make sense. SuperCollider generates music in real-time, Python retrieves data from NASA and GWOSC, Darkice streams to Icecast2 on a VPS – all this runs on hardware from 2012, consuming 3-4 watts of energy.
It's also an ethical choice. In times when data centres consume megawatts of energy training AI that produces generic content, NĀDA Radio shows that true innovation doesn't require luxury. You can create something unique, a continuously operating stream of generative music on a device that costs 30 dollars and uses less energy than a light bulb.
There's something beautifully open about this – technology that's accessible to everyone, that doesn't require corporate infrastructure or venture capital. A small, quiet, humble device generating infinite music. Like a hermit in a cave producing sutras.
Microcosm and Macrocosm
The fundamental idea of tantra is the unity of microcosm and macrocosm – what happens in the body mirrors what happens in the cosmos. As above, so below, as below, so above. As in macro, so in micro...
NĀDA Radio materializes this concept. Solar flares, these violent explosions of magnetic energy on the Sun's surface, are the cosmic equivalent of human bursts of creative energy. Coronal mass ejections – these massive clouds of charged particles thrown into space – are like the orgasmic pulsations of the universe.
And Raspberry Pi, this microscopic computer, becomes an antenna receiving these cosmic pulsations and translating them into sound. A small device in a small room, channeling forces greater than all the power plants on Earth combined.
SuperCollider as a synthesizer becomes an alchemical tool – it transforms raw data (numbers, magnetic parameters, particle velocities) into something that can be felt, that can be experienced sensually. It's transmutation, just as tantric practices transmute sexual energy into spiritual realization – not through suppression, but through conscious redirection.
Ambient as Meditative Space
Ambient music is not a random choice. The genre that Brian Eno defined as “as ignorable as it is interesting” is the ideal medium for a contemplative project. It doesn't demand attention, but rewards listening. It can be background, it can be foreground. It is like space itself.
In the nāda yoga tradition, sound serves as a focal point for meditation. It's not about intellectual understanding or emotional reaction – it's about direct experience of vibration. Ambient works similarly – it creates a sound field in which one can dwell without being forced into a specific reaction.
The generative nature of the project means the music never repeats. Every moment is unique, unrepeatable, fresh.
Of course, it's not entirely random – there exists a foundation, a sound base that I created, a harmonic structure and sonic palette. It's my composition, my aesthetic decisions. But the variability, evolution, the concrete shape of what you hear at any given moment – that's dictated by cosmic data. I am the architect of space, but the Sun is the improviser playing in that space.
Stream
The radio operates non-stop. 24/7/365. There are no play or pause buttons. There's no playlist you can “scroll to the end”. There's only now – always new, always different, but always present.
This reflects the nature of the cosmos itself. The Sun doesn't take breaks. Gravitational waves don't stop propagating. Energy doesn't disappear, it only transforms. The death of one star is the birth of another. The end of one sound is the beginning of the next.
In this sense, NĀDA Radio is more process than product. It's not a recording you can “finish listening to”. It's a living stream, organic, responding to actual changes in the cosmos in real-time. When a class X flare occurs on the Sun, the music reflects it. When magnetic activity drops, the sound changes.
There's something deeply comforting in this – the knowledge that somewhere out there, on the internet, this stream is flowing. That you can connect to it at any time of day or night and hear the current echo of cosmic processes. That a small device somewhere is working, channeling data from the Sun 100 million miles away, translating it into air vibrations that can reach your ears through fiber optics and routers.
Technology as Spiritual Practice
There's a false dichotomy between “spiritual” and “technological”. As if using computers were by definition soulless, mechanical, separated from true, authentic experience.
But technology is just a tool.
A hammer can destroy or build. A computer can serve to track and control people or to create spaces of freedom. Python, SuperCollider, Linux, streaming protocols – these are all languages, tools of expression. Code can be as poetic as a poem, as precise as a mantra.
NĀDA Radio uses open source tools – SuperCollider, Linux, Icecast, Darkice. This is not by chance. Open source is in a sense the technological practice of tantra – sharing knowledge without restrictions, building together, transparency of process. The opposite of proprietary, closed systems that keep users in ignorance “for their own good”.
Writing code that generates music in response to cosmic data can be a spiritual act. Debugging, optimization, searching for elegant solutions – all this requires the same concentration, patience and dedication as any meditative practice. The difference is only in form.
Invitation to Listen
NĀDA Radio exists on the network, accessible to anyone who wants to listen. It requires no subscription, no login, no personal data. You simply open the stream and you're there – in direct contact with an algorithm responding to the Sun and gravitational waves.
Some will listen in the background, during work, during meditation. Others will ignore it. That's okay. The project doesn't try to convince or convert anyone. It simply is – like the Sun, like gravitational waves propagating through the universe, regardless of whether anyone observes them or not.
But for those who are ready to truly listen – not just with ears, but with the whole body, whole awareness – NĀDA Radio offers something rare. A direct experience that we are part of something unimaginably larger.
That vibrations born 100 million miles away can move the membrane in our ear. That energy exploding on the surface of a star can evoke emotion in a human heart.
This is not mysticism in the sense of escaping from reality. This is mysticism in the sense of seeing reality as it is – as an incessant dance of energy, vibration, transformations. From quanta to galaxies, from chromosomes to planets, everything dances, everything vibrates, everything is NĀDA – the cosmic sound, the eternal song of becoming.
And somewhere in all this, a small Raspberry Pi humbly does its work, in a small room on the 10th floor, transforming numbers into sounds, data into music, information into experience.
Namaste.
Mateusz Beźnic
About the Artist
NĀDA Radio is my work – I am Mateusz Beźnic – MateuszBeznic.com – visual artist and musical seeker currently based in the United Kingdom, studying tantra and mathematics, practicing yoga and tantric massage. My practice has always focused on process and journey, exploring the dynamic relationship between control and chance in creative expression.
These are not random combinations. Tantra as philosophy and bodily practice. Mathematics as the language of patterns and vibrations. Tantric massage as direct work with energy in its most basic, embodied form.
Visual and sonic art as manifestation of all this. These are different ways of touching the same reality – energy in motion, transformation, flow between form and formlessness. This fascination with the tension between the intentional and the accidental permeates all my multidisciplinary work – from painting to creative coding, from visual installations to experimental music. NĀDA Radio is the natural culmination of this practice: conscious structure (control) meets the unpredictability of cosmic data (chance), and I as an artist make a fundamental decision – to accept these unexpected results as part of the work.
As a contemporary artist, painter with experience in curating and publishing (founder of CafeOcean Art Magazine), I've been experimenting for years with materials and disciplines that allow for elements of unpredictability.
In painting and drawing I discover this same tension – the gesture of brush or charcoal stick balances between intention and chance, control and surrender to process. Paint spills, lines lead in unexpected directions. Every medium – whether pigment on canvas or code in SuperCollider – poses the same fundamental questions about the nature of creativity.
My work has been exhibited in the United Kingdom, Poland, Italy and New Zealand – from Salford Museum & Art Gallery to HOME Manchester, from galleries in Warsaw to residency at Cold Bench in Italy. Currently I'm continuing my MA Fine Art-Digital studies at Central Saint Martins (University of Arts London), deepening my exploration at the intersection of art, technology and philosophy.
NĀDA Radio is an artistic practice where the gesture of creation itself becomes the subject of inquiry. Different responses to unexpected results – from acceptance to rejection – are at the heart of my work. In the case of NĀDA Radio, the decision has been made: to accept the Sun as co-creator. To let the cosmos speak through the built structure. To be the architect of the space, but not to dictate every sound.
This is tantra in practice. This is art as surrender to a greater process.
NĀDA Radio – www.nadaradio.com – a continuous stream of generative ambient music, powered by real-time solar activity data. Runs on Raspberry Pi 1B, using SuperCollider, Python, Darkice and Icecast2. Project accessible to all.